LONDON (TIP): One of Britain’s most prominent Indian-origin MPs, Priti Patel has been appointed minister of state for employment in British Prime Minister David Cameron’s new cabinet. Ms Patel was re-elected from Witham in Essex […]
BEIRUT (TIP) : The leader of the Islamic State militant group that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq issued an audio statement on Thursday in which he called on supporters to join him or to […]
LONDON (TIP) : Britain’s House of Lords is all set to debate one of the most prominent new trends in British politics – the growing clout of the Indian vote as seen in the recently […]
ROME (TIP): Rome’s main Fiumicino airport was gradually reopening on Thursday after a fire badly damaged the main international terminal building and forced the cancellation of dozens of flights, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded. The […]
TEHRAN (TIP): Iran has released the Maersk Tigris cargo vessel seized by its patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz last week over a business dispute, Iranian authorities said May 7. They said the ship […]
LONDON (TIP): He might be hawkish about immigration but UKIP chief Nigel Farage took inspiration on voting day from a one-time migrant – Mahatma Gandhi. Farage drew inspiration from Gandhi to answer his critics who […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC), On May 6, 2015, hosted an exclusive interaction with Ambassador Arun K. Singh, welcoming him to Washington D.C. in his new post as India’s Ambassador to the United […]
TOKYO (TIP): A Japanese zoo has apologized after receiving complaints over naming a baby monkey Charlotte for the newborn British princess. The Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden said Thursday it was considering renaming the macaque. It […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain will officially have a national bird on May 8 after a massive public poll to choose from 10 shortlisted name closes. The robin is the front runner to win the title. The […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese authorities have blacklisted four people for misbehaving while traveling, as Beijing seeks to improve the image of its tourists who are visiting the world’s touristy spots in increasingly large numbers but also […]
BEIJING (TIP): The court verdict sending movie actor Salman Khan to jail was featured in the news bulletin of China Central Television, the state broadcaster, this evening. The news was also circulated by the official […]
DENMARK (TIP): Denmark has moved one step closer to becoming the world’s first cashless society, as the government proposes scrapping the obligation for retailers to accept cash as payment. The Danish government has said that […]
ASTANA (TIP): Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only president Kazakhstan has ever seen since its birth some 24 years ago, won another mandate on April 26 by a margin that’d make words like ‘landslide’ and ‘overwhelming’ sound […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron appears to have discovered a new electoral language: Hindi. Speaking to a TV correspondent on April 30 while crisscrossing UK in a frenetic election campaign, Cameron was asked if there […]
BEIJING (TIP): The Indian military’s swift evacuation of thousands of Indians from earthquake-hit Nepal has put China’s PLA on the defensive with questions raised as to why its efforts to rescue stranded Chinese nationals did […]
TOKYO: Japan’s core inflation picked up for the first time in 10 months in March, data showed on Friday, offering a sliver of hope for the Bank of Japan, which has been struggling to beat […]
LONDON (TIP): No Indian university has made it to the list of the world’s top 100 which are under 50 years old. Institutes from 28 countries are present in the list of rising global higher […]
BEIJING (TIP): The Hong Kong police has launched an intense manhunt for a man who extracted a ransom of$3.6 million after kidnapping a 29-year old woman. The woman is safe but the kidnapper has vanished […]
BAGHDAD (TIP): The head of the European Union’s humanitarian aid department warned on Thursday that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating rapidly while the world is preoccupied with crises elsewhere. Jean-Louis de Brouwer told The […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): The April 25 earthquake and its aftershocks have turned one of the world’s most scenic regions in the world into a desolation and devastation. [quote_box_right] More than 5,800 are confirmed dead as per […]
BHAKTAPUR, Nepal — Rescuers struggled to reach Nepal’s more rural communities on Monday to assess the damage from a devastating earthquake that has left more than 3,800 people dead. [quote_box_right]Hit by severe shortage of food, […]
NEW DELHI: The enigmatic chief of Islamic State jihadist group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, Radio Iran has reported on Monday. Earlier, a Guardian report quoting sources with inside knowledge of the group reported that […]
SINGAPORE: Two Indian nationals in Singapore have been hailed as heroes and commended for saving a dangling toddler stuck between the rails on a parapet of a second floor apartment block. S Shammugun Nathan, 35, […]
Britain’s Conservative Party has launched a new campaign song in Hindi aimed at wooing Indian-origin voters in the run up to the May 7 general elections. Prime Minister David Cameron led party, which heads the […]
ENSENADA, CHILE (TIP): Twin blasts from the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile sent vast clouds of ash into the sky, covering this small town with thick soot and raising concerns on Thursday that the dust […]
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